They carry bits of their old houses with them, bamboo poles, iron sheets, and rebuild as best they can.

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He also liked the fact that this house includes some reclaimed wood from old shipping pallets and renewable bamboo floors.

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To keep bedbugs away, Leung and his roommates put thin pads, bamboo mats, even old linoleum on their cages' wooden planks instead of mattresses.

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In the fly-fishing world, bamboo rods are an enduring foundation, and Morgan mastered this old art.

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Enter through the bamboo courtyard and step into a room piled with Moroccan rugs, old records and other flea-market finds and grab a drink around the ping-pong table.

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